Harris v. Wickham

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: March 21, 2023
• Docket: 3:20-cv-00557
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

A AAtRtoOrNne Dy .G FeOnRerDa l 2 LAURA M. GINN, Bar No. 8085 Deputy Attorney General 3 State of Nevada 100 N. Carson Street 4 Carson City, Nevada 89701-4717 Tel: (775) 684-1120 5 E-mail: lginn@ag.nv.gov 6 Attorneys for Defendants Carol Alley, M.D., Lidia Karina Gamarra-Hoff, Benjamin Murphy 7 and Martin J. Naughton, M.D. 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 10 WILLIAM E. HARRIS, Case No. 3:20-cv-00557-MMD-CSD 11 Plaintiff, 12 v. STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR EXTENSION OF TIME 13 H. WICKHAM, et al., 14 Defendants. 15 16 Defendants Carol Alley, M.D., Lidia Karina Gamarra-Hoff, Benjamin Murphy and 17 Martin J. Naughton, M.D., (herein NDOC Employees), by and through counsel, Aaron D. 18 Ford, Nevada Attorney General, and Laura M. Ginn, Deputy Attorney General, of the State 19 of Nevada, Office of the Attorney General, and Plaintiff William E. Harris, by and through 20 counsel, Travis N. Barrick, Esq., of the law firm of Gallian Welker & Associates, LC., hereby 21 submit their thirty-two day stipulation to extend the time to file a response to the Plaintiff’s 22 Motion for Order to Show Cause (ECF No. 69) and Motion for Order of Contempt (ECF No. 23 70) (Motions). 24 MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES 25 Courts have inherent powers to control their dockets, see Ready Transp., Inc. v. AAR 26 Mfg, Inc., 627 F.3d 402, 404 (EDCA 2008), and to “achieve the orderly and expeditious 27 disposition of cases.” Chambers v. NASCO, Inc., 501 U.S. 32, 43 (1991) “Such power is 28 indispensable to the court’s ability to enforce its orders, manage its docket, and regulate 1 |/insubordinate [] conduct. Id. (See also Mazzeo v. Gibbons, No. 2:08-cv-01387-RLH-PAL, 2 WL 3910072, at *2 (D.Nev.2010)). 3 LR IA 6-1 discusses requests for continuances. The rule states: A (a) A motion or stipulation to extend time must state the reasons for the extension requested and must inform the court of all 5 previous extensions of the subject deadline the court granted. (Examples: “This is the first stipulation for extension of time to 6 file motions.” “This is the third motion to extend time to take discovery.”) 7 8 This is NDOC Employees’ second request and is requested for good cause. Defense 9 || Counsel needs to contact individuals to complete research to respond to Plaintiff's Motions. 10 thirty-two day extension should allow for these activities to be completed to April 24, 11 |} 2023. 12 The parties hereby further stipulate and agree that the above stipulations are made 13 ||in good faith and not for the purposes of delay. 14 || DATED this 20th day of March 2023. DATED this 20th day of March 2023. 15 ||GALLIAN WELKER & ASSOCIATES, LC AARON D. FORD Attorney General 16 17 /s/ Travis N. Barrick By: /s/ Laura M. Ginn TRAVIS N. BARRICK, Bar No. 9257 LAURA M. GINN, Bar No. 8085 18 Attorneys for William Harris Deputy Attorney General 19 Appointed under Pro Bono Program Attorneys for Defendants 20 IT IS SO ORDERED; 21 ¢ 99 UNITED STATES GISTRATE JUDGE 23 DATED: March 21, 2023 24 25 26 27 28